Travelling to become smoother as Delhi will get 1,300 new AC buses soon
Live MintThe Delhi government on Monday informed the Supreme Court that by May next year, the national capital will have 3,035 more buses, including 1,385 low floor AC buses and electric ones. The process of inducting 1,000 standard-floor non-AC CNG cluster buses with hydraulic lifts, for differently-abled persons, will start this month and would be completed in February 2020, the state government said in an additional affidavit filed before a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra. The government also informed the court that process of bidding is on regarding including induction of 385 low-floor AC electric cluster buses. The state government also informed the court that the government, on July 11, approved procurement of 1,000 low-floor AC buses by the Delhi Transport Corporation and the process would be completed by April 2020.